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... liquid solution, there was always a danger of freezing in the cold weather. So I set to work to negative this difficulty and succeeded, as I thought, by putting an incandescent lamp in each meter with a thermostat strip, which would make a contact...The Story of Thomas A. Edison - Page 108by Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1922 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book

...There came along a cold snap of weather, and the first thing I knew the telephone began to ring about every five minutes, and people would say: " 'Our meter's red hot; is that all right?' ' ' Then another one would call up and say: " ' Our meter's on fire inside and we poured water on it. Did that...

...with a thermostat strip, which would make a contact through the lamp when the temperature fell to 40 degrees. That idea, simple as it was, caused us a...Our meter's red hot. Is that all right ? ' " Then some one else would call up and say — " ' Our meter's on fire inside, and we poured water on it....

...with a thermostat strip, which would make a contact through the lamp when the temperature fell to 40 degrees. That idea, simple as it was, caused us a...say: "Our meter's red hot. Is that all right?" Then some one else would call up and say: Thomas A. Edison 207 "Our meter's on fire inside, and we poured...

...weather a customer would ring the company telephone to say 'Our meter's red hot. Is that all right?' or 'Our meter's on fire inside, and we poured water on it. Did that hurt it?' See Edison's testimony to the American Electrical Review, of i1 January 1909, reproduced in Jones,...